ZAUM (1995-1996)

Zaum was an electronica project band that includes Tool drummer Danny Carey, along with Tool associates Chris Pitman, Vince DeFranco, and Marco Fox.
The official Tool newsletter of April 2000 had the following to say the about the project:

"Zaum had some demos available a few years ago through Tool's management, Larrikin. Lately the members Marco Fox, Danny Carey, and Mother Goose have been too busy to put something out, but are hoping to go through over twenty hours of material to put something together. "

"Zaum" (Russian: заумь or заумный язык) is a word used to describe the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh.

All Zaum members can be considered as Tool alumni. Pitman and Fox are featured on the band's album Ænima. Pitman plays synthesizer on "Third Eye", while Fox contributed vocals for "Die Eier von Satan". In addition, DeFranco plays synthesizer on the live version of "Third Eye" on the band's album Salival and worked as an engineer on Lateralus.

The track "Apparatus" begins with a sample taken from the 1979 film Caligula, delivered by Malcolm McDowell: "I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God."
Although a track called "Merkaba" also appears on Tool's album Salival, this isn't the same track as that on ZAUM's demo.

Chris Pitman - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Vince DeFranco - guitar
Marco Fox - bass guitar
Danny Carey - drums






01 "Apparatus" – 7:45
02 "Merkaba" – 9:36
03 "Psychedelic Experience" – 6:04
04 "Serpent" – 10:04


Información tomada de Wikipedia


Danny Carey: http://www.dannycarey.com/

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MUROS DE AGUA - BAJO Y OSCURO (2006)

"MUROS DE AGUA (agrupación donde milita Víctor BALDOVINOS, baterista del legendario ICONOCLASTA). Dicha banda muestra una clara tendencia hacia la improvisación libre en donde se buscan nuevas avenidas rítmicas y sonoras a través de sonidos innovadores de sintetizador y una base rítmica progresiva." / Ce Ehecatl - Rock Arte Sonoro

"Alfredo Landa/ Bajo y stickbass / Graba el primer cd de "Muros de Agua" (proyecto catalogado como "free progresive" por algunos criticos). Smogless records. "Muros de Agua" y otro grupo fueron los unicos mexicanos incluidos en el festival Baja Prog 2002.En el 2006 cooproduce el segundo cd de "Muros de Agua" (Bajo y Oscuro)" / http://www.myspace.com/stickerjazz

*"Raúl César Romero / Teclados y Synthes /LA MEJOR MANERA de definir nuestra propuesta musical es dandote una breve historia del tri­o: Victor Baldovinos y yo nacimos en la tradición del rock progresivo; nuestros primeros maestros fueron grupos como Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes, Gentle Giant, Camel o Triunvirat. Despues yo me fui becado a Berklee, que es una afamada escuela de jazz en Boston, y para graduarme de sintetista tuve que mostrar eficiencia como pianista de swing y demas ritmos jazzeros. Pero Alfredo Landa viene totalmente de la tradición del jazz. Y así­, al ir definiendo nuestra propuesta, decidimos fusionar el rock progresivo, la new age, el jazz, la música electroacústica y algunos elementos de música medieval y la corriente prehispanica."

* "SIMULTANEAMENTE A MUROS de Agua, Raúl toca los teclados con el grupo "Alux"; Alfredo esta en bajo y stick con "Jazztlan", y Víctor, quien fuera baterista fundador de "Iconoclasta" en 1982, sigue fiel a este proyecto. Cada uno lleva un impresionante bagaje arti­stico y musical a cuestas, por lo que juntos logran construir un cuerpo sonoro que en verdad refresca y propone, que realmente te conmueve y te permite documentar sin problemas tu optimismo en el futuro inmediato de nuestra música"

*"EN LOS MUROS de Agua de José Revueltas, los reos de las Islas Marias se enfrentan impotentes al oceaano; mientras que los Muros de Agua de este tri­o son facilmente trascendidos a golpes de técnica e imaginación. Los esquemas tradicionales y la dictadura del mercado caen sin dificultad" http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/07/18/25an1esp.php?printver=1&fly=1

*"1st album by Mexican band Muros De Agua, which is one of the most wonderfully bizarre and stunning bands, I’ve come across in a long time. They are an instrumental trio with Raúl César Romero – keyboards, Alfredo Landa – bass and Victor Baldovinos Moreno – drums and on this album they are joined by two guest musicians: Ricardo Ramos – vibraphone and Jorge Cristians – saxophones. The music they perform is one of the hardest to describe I’ve ever come across – an absolutely weird mixture of avant-garde Jazz, Rock and electronics. As insane as it all might sound, the music makes perfect sense (to me) and is surely some of the most interesting, intriguing and exhilarating stuff I’ve come across in a long time. The certainly can be considered as continuing the legacy of the legendary Mexican experimental band Decibel, but they have updated the approach and added many new aspects. Every listener of adventurous contemporary music should be able to find here something to his liking, as there is RIO, Free Jazz, Avant Rock and even electronic music in abundance here. This is a masterpiece, but not for everybody of course. Let the weak-hearted beware."

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